Happy New Year, Friends! We survived! It turns out that the Mayans actually just got tired of creating a calendar for long after they ceased to exist and made the assumption someone in the future would pick up the slack and extend the calendar before it ended. Luckily, that happened. I bet the Mayans […]
Journal
I May Be Crazy
You already knew this, but here’s more evidence to support it… After over a year of not writing creatively in any capacity – meaning no blogs, sonnets, journal entries, prose or anything – I have decided to participate in NaNoWriMo. That’s right. After months and months of nothing, I have committed to attempting to write […]
Holier Than My Friend Count, Part 2
As promised, I posted at least one atheist quote per day throughout the month of April, and am now (finally) reporting back with the results of my little experiment. Comments Comments for all quotes totaled 121 – about half of which were on a single and somewhat inflammatory thread. The remaining comments were dispersed throughout the month […]
Holier Than My Friend Count, Atheist Quotes
An atheist believes deeds must be done instead of prayers said. [He] strives for involvement in life and not escape into death…He believes we cannot rely on god or channel action into prayer nor hope for an end of troubles in a hereafter. He believes we are our brother’s keepers and keepers of our own […]
Holier Than My Friend Count
I recently read this article on Mashable about women and their Facebook friends. While I can only really relate to two or three of the categories of Facebook friends defined, I do believe an important one was left out: Holier-Than-Thou. The Drama Queen and One-Upper are indeed annoying, but the type of Facebook friends I […]
Eulogy for My Yahoo! Email Account
I work in the tech industry, therefore, I must always have the coolest new gadget, the hottest smartphone, and use the trendiest web apps. Yes? Hmm…no. There are many cases where I find myself clinging to older technology just because I’m reluctant to abandon something that works well enough for something slightly faster and shinier. […]
The Return of the Angry Sonnet
During my years at UVA, I was incredibly lucky to study under Roy Wagner. Roy is, without doubt, one of the most brilliant anthropologists who ever muttered the word, “culture”. He’s also a phenomenal writer. I was luckier, still, that Roy took some interest in me as a writer, which resulted in a very pleasant friendship. One […]
The Crazy Cat Lady Bids Los Angeles a Cheesy Adieu
Over the past couple years, most of you have heard me whine incessantly about my desire to move to Seattle. For a variety of reasons – some legitimate, some merely grounded in fear – I failed to move last year. But my time of waiting is over. Due to medical need and a very lucky […]
Idiots on Parade – Why I Hate Shopping for Food
I hate grocery stores. Unlike most places were people shop, grocery stores do not have a specific demographic they cater to – everyone needs food. One would think that with so many different kinds of people gathering in one place, there would be multitudes of different kinds of behavior, but this is not so. My […]
Home
Home. One syllable. So much meaning. I’ve been on a quest, for several years now, to find my home. The meaning of “home” and all its implications has been rather problematic for me. A while back, I took a poll in my blog asking you to vote on what “home” means. I believe it went […]
